>Maybe I should take up clearing driveways. Seriously, it's not a bad salary for the area. A bit low. If I had equivalent experience in VB, I could probably be making $10k more a year. But, then, I'd have to use VB...

And the downside is?

While it might not be my choice of weapons for going after data-centric applications, it's finding more and more of a home in my arsenal. If nothing else, it's askill to fall back on if the desire to jump ship hits; with some credible skills, it'd be fairly easy to line up some short-term work through some of the temp agencies at $20-25/hr while looking for something you want to do.